Great timing, since I just wrapped up MHWilds for now. I'm definitely gonna be retouching Ash too if you know what I mean.
I'm not super keen on more Archimedea, especially with defense and assassination in the rotation. I do like the sticker system conceptually - it reminds me of Smash Brawl. More mod systems!
I wasn't aware of the damage redirection priority before Overguard... My Nekros was relegated to Argon and Arbitration farming for the last few years, but sounds like I'll have to experiment with more modern setups.
I love how this post turned into a Chroma thread, lmao.
Rhino might be simpler and more effective, but Chroma looks cooler and makes the game more interesting imo. That's the lifeblood of endgame for me.
I farmed up two copies of Arcane Energize for some newer players and Avenger/Fury/Arachne/Strike as well. As for everything else... The Vosfor must flow.
Fun build! I tried this out on my support Styanax and it works quite well.
Here's my variant, with 2 cast speed and 3 ability strength shards.
Ohh, I do really want an Influence Whipclaw. Maybe Atlas will be saved that way too.
Hold-to-spam for pseudo-exalted abilities would be really nice too. In the meantime, the OG hack of binding 1 to scroll wheel will have to do.
Khora is a monster. Lots of people use her for farming/interception, but I much prefer to run her as a whip-cracking DPS with Magistar Incarnon, Magus Aggress, and Amethyst Archon shards for melee crit damage.
Definitely concerned that Khora won't be able to casually hit huge damage numbers after the pseudo-exalted rework. We'll see what happens, I guess.
Melee Doohickey
They're ok. Just a fun little toy that brings back nostalgia and not much more, at least for PvE purposes. My old hands are content to bullet jump as DE intended when they folded coptering into the game.
Are they banned in Conclave?
No frills, just on-demand damage, defense, and CC. Rhino is still a beast thanks to Roar's unique damage interactions and Iron Skin getting reworked to provide overguard. I like playing a minmaxed Roar build when helping new players so they can get a taste of real power.
I love Combat Discipline + Avenger Trinity with negative efficiency and Slamfluence builds. It's super braindead to play thanks to Link's targeting and has insane synergy with Madurai/Naramon. I also dropped almost all survivability mods on my companions in favor of Bond offense/utility mods since you can just press 4.
His tactical alert variant has no ability immunity. I just hosed him down with Mesa.
Edit: whoops, looks like the event ended right as I replied. I hope you figured out a build!